Very good theme, but should html5 push State when possible, it would make it near-perfect.
pjax would work today on several browsers with graceful degradation.
Glider - A minimal, text-focused theme for Wordpress
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Re: Glider - A minimal, text-focused theme for Wordpress
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#13When clicking on the arrow to see the list of other posts and then clicking on one of those posts, I would expect the URL to change. Instead, of
http://tomcreighton.com/2012/09/getting-something-off-my-too...
I get this:
http://tomcreighton.com/2012/10/chipping-away/#/getting-some...
Other than that, I like it. Good work.
Re: Glider - A minimal, text-focused theme for Wordpress
#14When clicking on the arrow to see the list of other posts and then clicking on one of those posts, I would expect the URL to change. Instead, of http://tomcreighton.com/2012/09/getting-something-off-my-too... I get this: http://tomcreighton.com/2012/10/chipping-away/#/getting-some... Other than that, I like it. Good work.
Thanks! Yeah, appending a hash is not ideal, but it got the job done - I'll be updating it with pushState or similar in the future.
Re: Glider - A minimal, text-focused theme for Wordpress
#15Unfortunately that menu slide in animation just doesn't work out well on an iPad 3. I'm not able to checkout the code ATM but I assume you're using jquery for the animation. CSS3 animations generally perform better on iPads. This plugin is great: http://playground.benbarnett.net/jquery-animate-enhanced/
Re: Glider - A minimal, text-focused theme for Wordpress
#16Feedback: I expected the arrow at the right of the screen to take me to the next article, not to a navigation/contents menu.
I did too, but it was pretty quick to work out what was going on when I clicked it the first time. Not "intuitive", but nicely "discoverable" behaviour.
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#17I like the simplicity of it, but almost immediately ran into a usability/navigation issue: - I hit the arrow key to go to the menu, and choose "A Personal API". So far so good. - I click on the arrow again, it just fades out. Ok... let's try the back button. That removes the hash from the URL, but I'm still on "A Personal API". Pressing Forward adds the hash back, but there are no changes on the page. The only option…
same behavior on firefox 16.0.2 on windows xp.
Re: Glider - A minimal, text-focused theme for Wordpress
#18love it.
Re: Glider - A minimal, text-focused theme for Wordpress
#19Nice concept, but I would definitely consider using something like PJAX (https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax) in place of the javascript loading already in place.
Also, text is really tiny on my iPhone.
Re: Glider - A minimal, text-focused theme for Wordpress
#20Nice :) I will try to add it to my blog later, it's perfect for me. Just one thing: it's me, or the theme looks better on Mac than on Windows? The font seems too sharp on Win.
fonts generally look worse in Windows than Mac. OS X does some magic to smooth out those fonts.
> fonts generally look worse in Windows than Mac.
This is subjective.
See: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html
I prefer the way fonts look on Windows. Other people prefer the way fonts look in MacOS.
> OS X does some magic to smooth out those fonts.
FWIW, it is Windows that is actually doing "magic" (in the sense that it is using a algorithm to fit pixels to grid) whereas MacOS just does a more direct rendering of the actual font curves. Whether or not you like that "magic" is up to you. Until we're using retina-style displays everywhere, I like the Windows "magic".